Epithelial Inoculation After Small-Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE): A Case Report.

Epithelial ingrowth is a rare condition that is generally seen after laser keratomileusis (LASIK) and has been reported in the literature in a small number of cases after small-incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) surgery. "Epithelial inoculation" should also be considered in patients presenting with decreased vision and an appearance similar to epithelial ingrowth in the early period after SMILE surgery. A 23-year-old woman presented to our clinic with a request for refractive surgery.

Effect of Keratoconus Stage and Classification Parameters on Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty Outcomes.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the keratoconus (KC) stage according to the Amsler-Krumeich classification system and the parameters used in this classification on deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty outcomes.

Methods: The preoperative KC stage was determined, and the presence of corneal scarring was noted. The preoperative and postoperative best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), refractive error, mean central keratometry (K mean ) readings, topographic astigmatism, and minimum corneal thickness (CT) values were recorded.

Comparison of Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty and Penetrating Keratoplasty in Keratoconic Eyes With Previous Hydrops-Related Corneal Scar.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the outcomes of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) and penetrating keratoplasty (PK) procedures in keratoconic eyes with a previous hydrops-related corneal scar.

Methods: In this retrospective study, the medical records of patients who had hydrops-related corneal scarring and underwent keratoplasty surgery were reviewed. Patients treated with DALK were classified as group 1, and patients treated with PK as group 2.

Comparison of combined gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy and cataract extraction with gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy surgery alone on macular thickness.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of Gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy (GATT) on macular thickness and to compare the combined GATT and cataract extraction (CE) with GATT surgery alone regarding macular thickness.

Methods: A retrospective, comparative study was designed. The patients who underwent GATT or combined GATT and CE with preoperative and regular postoperative spectral domain optic coherence tomography analysis (SD-OCT) were included.

Descemet's membrane area and posterior corneal power may predict the Descemet membrane folds after deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty in patients with advanced keratoconus.

Aims: To investigate possible predictive topographic characteristics for the development of Descemet's membrane (DM) folds after the uneventful deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK).

Methods: A retrospective study included 56 eyes of 56 consecutive patients who underwent uneventful DALK using the big-bubble technique to treat advanced keratoconus. At baseline and each visit, best-corrected logMAR visual acuity (BCVA), slit-lamp findings, endothelial cell density, topographic parameters were recorded.

Pressure restoration and visual recovery time in hypotony after trabeculectomy.

Objectives: To asses the course of intraocular pressure (IOP) restoration and visual acuity (VA) recovery in eyes with hypotony after trabeculectomy.

Methods: Medical charts of patients undergoing trabeculectomy between January 2017 and June 2019 were reviewed. Cases with hypotony (IOP < 5 mmHg) due to over-filtration in the early postoperative period were assessed retrospectively.

Topical cyclosporine a (0.05%) treatment in dry eye patients: a comparison study of Sjogren's syndrome versus non-Sjogren's syndrome.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical effect of topical cyclosporine A (CsA) (0.05%) on dry eye patients with Sjogren's syndrome (SS) and non-Sjogren's syndrome (NSS).

Method: This retrospective comparative study includes the dry eye (DE) patients who were treated with topical CsA.

Combined Intrastromal Voriconazole and Amphotericin B Treatment for Persistent Fungal Keratitis.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical outcomes of combined intrastromal voriconazole and intrastromal amphotericin B for the treatment of persistent fungal keratitis.

Method: Patients who received combined corneal intrastromal voriconazole (0.05 mg/0.

Anatomic and functional results of idiopathic macular epiretinal membrane surgery.

Aim: To assess the impact of macular surgery on the functional and anatomic outcomes in patients with grade 2 epiretinal membrane (ERM), and the effect of internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling on visual acuity and to analyze the long-term effect of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) on intraocular pressure (IOP).

Methods: Pseudophakic eyes (62 eyes) diagnosed as idiopathic grade 2 ERM with at least 6mo postoperative follow-up were included in this retrospective study. The fellow eye was nonvitrectomized.

Accelerated epithelium-on or accelerated epithelium-off corneal collagen cross-linking: Contralateral comparison study.

Purpose: The aim of the study is to compare the accelerated epithelial-on corneal collagen cross-linking (epi-on CXL) and accelerated epithelial-off corneal collagen cross-linking (epi-off CXL) in terms of clinical and confocal microscopy results.

Materials And Methods: Forty-two eyes of 21 patients with progressive keratoconus and simultaneously undergoing accelerated epi-on CXL in one eye and accelerated epi-off CXL in other eye were evaluated. Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) with spectacle in logMAR and topographic findings (mean keratometry [ ] and maximum keratometry [) were recorded at 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 30 months.

Gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy as an option after failed trabeculectomy.

Purpose: To evaluate the safety and efficacy profile of gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy (GATT) in patients with open-angle glaucoma with a history of previous failed trabeculectomy surgery.

Method: This case-series study included 26 eyes of 26 consecutive patients with a mean age of 64.1 ± 4.

One-year results of gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy: Evaluation of prognostic factors.

Purpose: To present the results and complications of gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy in adults with open-angle glaucoma using our different approaches during and after surgery.

Method: A retrospective comparative study was designed. Patients with regular 12-month follow-up history were included.

Acanthamoeba Keratitis Associated with Scleral Contact Lens Use in a Keratoconus Patient.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the second reported case of keratitis (AK) as a result of scleral lens use and the first case of AK associated with Maxim scleral lens use (Accu-Lens, Inc., Lakewood, CO, USA). A 22-year-old male scleral lens user presented at the department of ophthalmology at Gazi University Hospital complaining of painful corneal opacities and erosion in the cornea of right eye.

Performing Corneal Collagen Cross-linking after Radial Keratotomy in a Patient with Keratoconus: Case Report.

To present a case with progressive keratoconus after treated with radial keratotomy (RK) and was undergone corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) for preventing the progress of keratectasia. A progressive keratoconus case who was previously treated with RK was undergone corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) in her left eye for preventing the progress of keratectasia. After the CXL procedure performed at another clinic, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of her left eye decreased from 0.

Intracameral air injection after completion of phacoemulsification cataract surgery: Evaluation of corneal incisions with optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of air bubbles on clear corneal incision (CCI) in patients who had phacoemulsification surgery, and to compare this type of CCI architecture with patients who had no air bubbles after phacoemulsification surgery, using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

Methods: Eyes which had undergone uneventful phacoemulsification cataract surgery with implantation of a posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) were equally randomized into two groups. Group 1 comprised patients with anterior chamber air bubble injection after phacoemulsification, and Group 2 comprised patients who had undergone phacoemulsification surgery without anterior chamber air bubble.

The results of aflibercept therapy as a first line treatment of age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To report the results of aflibercept treatment in treatment-naive neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients and suggest a suitable treatment algorithm for routine clinical practice.

Method: The medical charts of patients treated with intravitreal aflibercept for neovascular AMD were reviewed retrospectively. Best corrected visual acuity, slit-lamp examination, dilated fundus examination, applanation tonometry, and a total number of aflibercept injections were recorded.

Preoperative prognostic factors for macular hole surgery: Which is better?

Aim: This study aims to evaluate the prognostic factors of different optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters as well as the tamponade used in surgery, on postoperative anatomical and functional success.

Methods: Twenty-nine eyes of 27 patients were included in this study. A three-port 23-gauge pars plana vitrectomy was performed on all eyes with peeling of the internal limiting membrane by visualization with brilliant blue dye by the same surgeon (E.

Balanced Salt Solution-Assisted Intraocular Lens Implantation in Phacoemulsification Surgery: Intraocular Pressure and Endothelial Cell Effects.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of balanced salt solution (BSS)-assisted intraocular lens (IOL) implantation on postoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) and endothelial cells and to compare BSS-assisted IOL implantation with the use of ophthalmic viscosurgical devices during IOL implantation.

Methods: A total of 52 eyes of 40 patients (25 female, 15 male) with a cataract who underwent phacoemulsification surgery with BSS-assisted (26 eyes) or viscoelastic-assisted IOL implantation (26 eyes) were evaluated. BSS-assisted IOL implantation was performed with the aid of irrigation cannula and BSS without using a viscoelastic substance.

The outcomes of aflibercept therapy in patients with age-related macular degeneration resistant to bevacizumab or ranibizumab.

Purpose: This study was designed to assess the functional and anatomic outcomes of intravitreal aflibercept injection in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) refractory to intravitreal bevacizumab or ranibizumab therapy.

Methods: This retrospective study included 43 eyes of 43 patients resistant to treatment with at least 6 injections of bevacizumab or ranibizumab. Persistent intraretinal and subretinal fluid (IRF and SRF) on optical coherence tomography (OCT), no improvement in best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), and a central macular thickness (CMT) increase of more than 100 μm due to SRF and/or IRF compared to baseline for at least 6 monthly intravitreal bevacizumab or ranibizumab injections were defined as resistant to bevacizumab/ranibizumab therapy.

Orbital decompression surgery for the treatment of Graves' ophthalmopathy: comparison of different techniques and long-term results.

Aim: To evaluate the long-term results of different orbital decompression techniques performed in patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO).

Methods: Totally 170 cases with GO underwent orbital decompression between 1994 and 2014. Patients were divided into 4 groups as medial-inferior, medial-lateral (balanced), medial-lateral-inferior, and lateral only according to the applied surgical technique.

Intravitreal bevacizumab for retinopathy of prematurity in infants ineligible for laser therapy.

Background/aim: To evaluate refractive and strabismic results and the efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) ineligible for laser therapy.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-nine eyes of 20 consecutive infants with high-risk prethreshold ROP (11 infants with Zone I and 9 infants with Zone II disease) who were ineligible for laser therapy due to systemic and/or ocular conditions were treated with intravitreal bevacizumab. Recurrent retinopathy was treated with laser ablation.

Excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy in conjunction with mitomycin C in corneal macular and granular dystrophies.

Purpose: To evaluate the visual outcomes, recurrence patterns, safety, and efficacy of excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) in conjunction with mitomycin C (MMC) for corneal macular and granular diystrophies.

Methods: The patients were divided into two groups. Group 1 included patients with macular corneal dystrophy (MCD) that caused superficial corneal plaque opacities, and Group 2 included patients with granular corneal dystrophy (GCD).

Interferon Alpha-2a Therapy in Patients with Refractory Behçet Uveitis.

Purpose: To report the results of IFNα2a therapy in patients with Behçet uveitis refractory to azathioprine-cyclosporine combination treatment.

Methods: In a retrospective study, 39 patients treated with either azathioprine-cyclosporine combination treatment (group 1, n = 23) or IFNα2a (group 2, n = 16) with a diagnosis of ocular Behçet disease (BD), were included in the study. Group 2 consisted of patients who did not respond to conventional combination therapy, and were therefore treated with IFNα2a.

Choroidal Thickness in Turkish Children with Anisometric Amblyopia.

Purpose: To assess macular choroidal thickness (CT) and axial length measurements in children with anisometropic amblyopia and to compare the measurements with that of fellow non-amblyopic eyes and age-sex matched controls.

Methods: Forty patients with anisometropic amblyopia and 40 age-/sex-matched controls were evaluated in this study. Eyes were classified into three groups as follows: amblyopic eyes (n = 40), fellow non-amblyopic eyes, and healthy eyes (n = 40).